games @hexbear.net doublepepperoni [none/use name] @hexbear.net 2 mo. ago

Letter of the Month from the March 1999 issue of the Official US PlayStation Magazine

I thought the gaming world was over the sexist thing; apparently I was wrong

I'd hate to tell her that the gaming world still isn't entirely over it 25 years later

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People used to be such better writers.
- should have wrote to you
- Yeah. I'm gonna need to lookup some stuff to get my writing game up...
  
  Use the word "cogent."
- I feel like I was a much better writer when I was 16. My brain has deteriorated since then—I blame the internet. And beer.
Beautiful. No notes. Fucking get their ass
- As much as gamers have insisted that girls don't/didn't play video games I seem to remember letters like this popping up pretty regularly in video game magazine mail bag sections where women complained about how they were being treated by video game publishers, media and gamers
  
  I remember how in one Finnish gaming magazine some dude wrote in to complain about how unrealistic it was to have female characters in games involving combat because of le muscle mass, etc. Later a female reader wrote a response where she thoroughly debunked and dunked on the guy. Unfortunately I think she gushed over female IDF soldiers in it
  
  Was this in Pelit or Mikrobitti? There was something else too wasnt there dont remember though
Indents at the start of paragraphs has started to feel weird to me because of the double spacing people do on the internet without ever using it. It's becoming a language relic you only see when reading old magazines and books now. It's even left out of some new books I've noticed.

EDIT: Sad. I didn't expect it to still work though given how many times I've changed email.
- I wonder if this person got weird emails from proto-redditors after this letter was published
  
  Vintage 1999 rage at women. And a bunch of creepy messages because she told everyone she was 16.
- I actually do still type with the indents 😅. The only reason I can't on here is because of how markdown works, and it took me a while to figure out it was the indents messing with my formatting.
  
  #IndentedParagraphsGang, rise up!
It’s wild that they would just print a 16-year-old’s email address in a magazine
- It was a different world back then. I assume online harassment, dogpiling and internet creeps weren't huge issues in 1999
ok im sorry but how in the hell someone 25 years ago thought sexism was done in the gaming world? almost all the adverts for games back then were sexy bikini models telling you how much of a pussy you are for not playing their game. DO NOT watch old video game awards shows.
- I guess she expected better from gaming media for some reason? It wasn't just this one letter, actually. I was flipping pages and landed on this letter but after posting I noticed the entire previous page was filled with other angry responses from other female readers to the same sexist article, lol

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